caretaker government
Stopgap ruling body
A caretaker government holds power temporarily, usually between the fall of one administration and the formation of another.
It handles routine business but avoids major policy decisions or controversial actions: The caretaker government will oversee the country until elections are held.
The term applies especially in parliamentary systems during transitions.
- interimProvisional in-between phase
- power vacuumAbsence of governing authority
- snap electionHastily called public vote
- lame duckOfficeholder serving final term
- temporaryLimited in duration
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- LebanonBeirut, cedars, cedar trees, Tyre, Tripoli
- political turmoilpolitical instability, power vacuum, coup d'etat, military coup, uprising
- Continuityline of succession, presidential succession, chain of command, succession planning, vice president
- Pakistani PoliticsNational Assembly, Prime Minister, legislature, political parties, PPP
- provisional governmentsinterim president, interim leader, acting president, military junta, junta
- temporary rolestemp, temp worker, internship, substitute, interim
caretaker governmentauthoritarian regime
Government with concentrated, unchecked power
absolute monarchy · dictatorship · totalitarian government · one-party state · autocracy
caretaker governmentrepresentative government
Rule by elected officials
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